Judges 20:36-41
New Catholic Bible
36 The Benjaminites then saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given way before the Benjaminites, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set near Gibeah. 37 The men who had been in ambush made a sudden rush toward Gibeah. The men in ambush marched in and put the entire city to the sword. 38 The Israelites had arranged with those who were in ambush that they should raise up flame and a great cloud of smoke from out of the city. 39 The Israelites would then turn around in the battle.
The Benjaminites had begun to overcome and kill the Israelites, about thirty of them, and they were saying to themselves, “Surely we are striking them down before us as we did in the first battle.” 40 When the flames and the column of smoke began to rise up out of the city, the Benjaminites looked back and saw flames rising up into the heavens from the city. 41 The Israelites turned on them, and the Benjaminites were terrified, for they realized that they faced disaster. Read full chapter
